The poem "Caisheng" wrote: "Cut and choose to give a blind date, and the silver hairpin is decorated with a phoenix." Leaves chase the golden knife, flowers follow the jade to refer to the new. It depicts the beautiful movements of beautiful women's paper-cutting in the Tang Dynasty and the beautiful effects of flowers, birds, insects and fish cut out. In the Song Dynasty, the paper-cutting industry and famous paper-cutting artists began to appear. In the Song Dynasty, paper-cutting became popular. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the peak of paper cutting.
Technically speaking, paper-cutting is actually cutting and carving on paper to present the image to be expressed. The working people in China have perfected this art form by relying on their own intelligence and wisdom in their long-term artistic practice and life practice.
Formed a variety of techniques such as tearing paper, ironing paper, color matching, color matching, dyeing, sketching, etc., so that the expressive force of paper-cutting extends infinitely in depth and breadth. As thin as a silkworm spinning silk and as thick as a big brush. Its different forms can be attached to the pendulum lining or hung in the air.
Because the tools and materials of paper-cutting are simple and popular, and the techniques are easy to master, it has irreplaceable characteristics of other art categories. Therefore, this art form has spread almost all over the towns and villages in China since ancient times, and has won people's love and praise.
The reason why folk paper-cutting can go through the long historical evolution of China without losing its purity and freshness is closely related to the stable social and cultural structure in rural areas of China. Its own contradictory and unified characteristics determine its natural selection method for the ever-changing side, thus opening a gap with court art and literati art.
Because everyone's point of view is based on different reasons, the classification of paper-cutting is also different. For example, some people think that what is carved with a knife is not called paper cutting, but paper carving; However, some people think that tracing back to the source, ancient paper-cutting was also carved with a knife, not to mention the nickname "reamer". Why can't knife carving be paper-cut? In fact, there are differences in engraving marks, and the techniques used are also difficult. Therefore, the world thinks that the works with knife and scissors can be collectively called paper-cutting, and the works with pure knife can be called paper-cutting, so the classification of paper-cutting is divided into paper-cutting and paper-cutting.